Horsham District Council Tree Preservation Orders

Horsham District Council Tree Preservation Order Polygon data. A Tree Preservation Order (TPO) is a legally enforceable order made by the Local Planning Authority to protect trees and woodland in the interests of public amenity. The power to make a TPO is contained in the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 and the Town and Country (Tree Preservation)(England) Regulations 2012. The principal effect of a TPO is to prohibit the cutting down, uprooting, topping, lopping, uprooting, wilful damage to or wilful destruction of protected trees or woodlands unless permission has been given by the Local Planning Authority. This dataset depicts individual, groups of trees, areas and woodlands as POLYGONS. Data has been captured against the Ordnance Survey Mastermap basemap. Attribute fields included: 1. REFERENCE = Unique Identifier for Polygon; 2. NAME = Name, Reference or Address of Tree Preservation Order; 3. TREE_PRESERVATION_ORDER = The Tree Preservation Order reference that affects this tree; 4. TNUM = Individual reference for Tree, Area or Woodland; 5. TREE_PRESERVATION_ZONE_TYPE = The type of order - Area, Group, Woodland or Individual Tree; 6. NOTES = Comments or Description relating to the Tree Preservation Order; 7. START_DATE = The date the Tree Preservation Order came into force (yyyy/mm/dd); 8. ENTRY_DATE = Date the entity was last updated (yyyy/mm/dd); 9. STATUS = The status of the Tree Preservation Order; 10. Documentation URL = Link to published documentation on our website